Patchwork and Its Pitfalls

<p><em>Patchwork and Its Pitfalls: The Cost of Half-Way Solutions </em>describes decision makers’ patchwork actions that occur due to hesitation and lack of firmness and determination.</p><p>Under the pretext of “humanitarianism” “saving lives” or taking an otherwise wimpy action they end up taking a cowardly action at the cost of human lives and much material damage.</p><p>The costliest action often turns out to be the cheapest but is seldom done while the easiest and apparently cheapest action ends up being the most expensive in the aggregate.</p><p>This book is important because indecisive decision makers can emerge in all nations at all times.</p><p>The author’s inspiration for writing this book: “When I watch politicians who repeatedly take cowardly decisions out of ‘human considerations’ and concern for lives and material preservations but in fact end up wasting both.”</p><p><strong>(About the Author)</strong></p><p>Raphael Israeli has taught Islamic Chinese and Middle Eastern history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A graduate of Hebrew University in history and Arabic literature he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese and Islamic history from the University of California Berkeley. Now retired he has been a Fellow of the Harry Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Center since the 1970s and is the author of over 60 research books a dozen edited books and 100 scholarly articles about Islam.</p>